We have the AWS centos system and we have our software installed on it. Now we want to move this EC2 instance to Azure. What is the process and best way approach that we can follow.
Any Document or article will help.
Azure has a guide for this specifically
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/site-recovery/migrate-tutorial-aws-azure
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I am not sure if I am asking a right question but I am looking for a Linux redhat Azure machine with Docker and Python3 stack which would be free and available in the marketplace. Does anyone aware of such an image in Azure marketplace?
According to my knowledge, Azure aims to provide the pure VM images, you can install anything in the VM as you want, it depends on you. Maybe another one does not want the Docker and python3 installed in the VM.
So I suggest you just use the pure Redhat VM image to create the VM and use the VM extension or the cloud-init to provision the python3 and the Docker server in the VM. That's the right way you need to focus on.
I am trying to migrate Linux VM running on AWS to Azure but it has Kernel version (4.4.0-1088-AWS) which is not supported with Azure.
I tried to use Azure Site Recovery to replicate the Virtual machine directly to Azure but the mobility service agent is not installing there due to Kernel version not being supported.
Is there any way to migrate those VMs or Is there any way to clone the same VMs to Azure by creating a new instance and moving data and configuration.
Current OS Version is Ubuntu 14.04
You can create new instance as per requirement Ubuntu version and then copy manually data
You can treat the Linux VM as physical and migrate to Azure using Azure migrate or Azure Site Recovery.
For more details, see a similar discussion on the MSDN forum - https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/e542831d-a506-495f-8d4b-61e093c5345a/migrate-from-aws-to-azure?forum=hypervrecovmgr
I created a Azure VM (windows sever 2016) using azure portal. It has .net 4.6.2 installed on it. Now I want to roll out latest available .net framework (4.7/ 4.7.1) on it. One option is to download required framework and install it on the VM. I am sure there should be some other better way to roll out .net framework on Azure VMs using Azure portal or ARM template. Please help me with the option available for the same.
Like the other answer says, you could use Azure Powershell DSC extensión, but there other ways to achieve that.
Usually you dont want the latest versión of the specific app\framework. You want the versión you've tested your app\code against (so its pretty static). You could créate a VM, install all the stuff you need and capture it. You will get an image and from that image you can deploy copies of the VM. That process can be automated with packer (so you dont have to build\recapture manually when\if you want to update something).
Another options is using Azure VM Script Extensión, which is a lot easier than diving into Powershell DSC.
Also, sometimes you could find an image in the gallery that corresponds to your needs (but I doubt that it is the case this time).
There is not currently a way in the Azure portal to deploy/upgrade .NET Framework in a VM. If this was something you were going to be doing a bunch I think you should use PowerShell Desired State Configuration (to install/update .NET Framework) in an Azure Resource Manager (ARM Template). This is a good walk through for what that process would look like.
If you use Run Command from the Azure Portal to run Start-Process you can get it to run a script from storage to install .net framework.
We have a requirement to Migrate EC2 instance of AWS to Azure as VM, have been trying to implement the same from this source,
unable to complete the process. Tried and stuck on Protection Group.
I'm looking in these other links
Migrating a VM from EC2 to Azure at 300 Mbps For this I'm able to create VM in Classis portal but unable connect to it only port 80 is active all other ports are not working
Migrate virtual machines in Amazon Web Services (AWS) to Azure with Azure Site Recovery
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/site-recovery/site-recovery-vmware-to-azure
https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/vm-import/ on trying this I'm getting this unresolved EC2 API export to S3 ACL issue
Can anyone suggest me a workflow on how to implement this?
I achieved this by downloading AWS EC2 VHD to an Hyper-V enabled machine on-premises.
Following are the steps.
Create VM from VHD and Remove AWS related software.
Open Hyper-V manager and create VM from the downloaded VHD.
Log in to the VM and uninstalled AWS related services from control panel (AWS Drivers, EC2configService, AWS Tools for Windows, AWS SSM Agent)
All these changes were affected on the VHD.
Upload the converted VHD to Azure Storage (using the Azure PowerShell cmdlets)
Create av Azure VM-Image from that VHD in Classic Azure Portal
Create an Azure VM using the new Image.
Created a classic VM in Azure portal.
For creating a VM under Resource manager, created VHD of newly migrated VM and using that created a new VM in azure portal.
Mention any workflow other than this.
There are multiple ways to migrate machines.
Azure Migrate: Server Migration is one tool that lets you do that and is the recommended way to rehost x86 machines to Azure. You can treat the EC2 instance (AWS VM) as though it were a Physical machine and migrate it to Azure as long as the Operating System on the machine is supported by the Physical Server Migration flow (also check the kernel version to ensure it is supported) https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/migrate/tutorial-migrate-physical-virtual-machines
That being said, EC2 VMs may have some changes that you’ll need to make before migrating them, or it may cause issues once in Azure. For example if they are using cloudinit for VM provisioning, you may want to disable cloudinit on the VM before replicating it because the provisioning steps performed by cloudinit on the VM maybe AWS specific and wont be valid after the migration to Azure.
The other thing to note is if the VM is a PV VM (para-virtualized) and not a HVM VM you may not be able to run it as is because paravirtualized VMs use a custom boot sequence in AWS (you may be able to get over this challenge by installing GRUB 2 on the VM and building grub)
The recommendation, if you are using this approach, is to always perform a test migration first to test the process.
I have an application in centos VM running in amazon EC2 and now I need to migrate it to windows azure.
Is there a way to copy a snapshot to azure??
I wish to answer it step by step, but I found a link that is more than good & have almost details required to migrate an existing instance from Amazon EC2 to Windows Azure with video. The link is Guided Hands-on Lab: Migrate VMs to Windows Azure from Amazon AWS [ 20 Key Cloud Scenarios with Windows Azure Infrastructure Services ]
I hope it will help.
Well this is only possible if you are running Windows Server on your EC2 instance by following this link:
https://convective.wordpress.com/2014/07/04/migrating-a-vm-from-ec2-to-azure-at-300-mbps/
If you're running linux, currently there's no simple tool that does it, but you can go to your Azure account and follow these steps:
1- Mimic your architecture of servers on your Azure account by keeping eyes on number of VMs, Network, Storages, and other services if found.
2- Make the correct setup on those servers (configure your web server, db server, etc..)
3- Zip all of your data files found on EC2 (/var/www/Web_Folder) and use mysqldump to backup your database as well.
4- Create a windows server VM on Azure that you can connect to Remotely (Profit from the cloud internet speed) and use filezilla to download your zipped files from EC2 and then upload them back to newly created VMs on Azure. Upload your db backup file there as well.
5- Create a new database on your Azure VMs with the same old name, give user access, exit mysql and then restore your db backup file that you uploaded using: mysql -u root -p DB_Name
Just an update, Now you can accomplish this task using Azure Site Recovery this is a super easy task. In site recovery once you do failover all the virtual machines will automatically gets created which means with minimal or no downtime the migration can be performed https://azure.microsoft.com/en-in/documentation/articles/site-recovery-migrate-aws-to-azure/